Cute and adorable.
Su Deng smiled and walked over.
"Mom!" Su Muye saw her and ran over quickly. The little fox was startled and darted into the forest bushes.
Su Deng helped him up: "Has anything happened here today?"
Su Muyue shook his head and handed the dorayaki from the small bag to Su Deng: "This is delicious. I sneaked out to buy it today."
"Eat it yourself." Su Deng had no appetite or mood for food.
Su Deng looked up at the towering mountain that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see, and remembering Cui Tai's words, asked Su Muye, "Do you know what the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is?"
In her understanding, the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is a folk tale from her country's Ghost Festival, where the gates of hell open and ghosts from the underworld come to the human world.
Just like the multiple instances of Qin Xian at age 17 that she entered before, the situation that night.
But the ghosts in this country's legends were not quite the same as what she knew.
The game's dungeons simulate reality, and they should also be based on this legend.
Su Muye's NPC character in this game instance is a minor demon, and he actually knows a little about it: "The ghosts here are all demons, and the real ghosts are called spirits. The Hundred Demons Night Parade seems to be a procession of more than a hundred kinds of demons at night..."
That's all he knows.
Su Deng regretted that she should have asked Cui Tai not long ago.
But it doesn't matter.
Su Deng pinched Su Muye's little face and said softly, "I have to go back to Wushui Garden. Be careful here by yourself."
"Don't worry, Mom!" Su Muye said obediently.
Wherever the Snow Child goes, snow falls.
Su Deng traveled from Ghost Mist Village to Firefly Forest, and then back to Witch Water Garden, but she didn't see any snowfall anywhere.
In the Wushui Garden, Peach and the others had safely returned, but less than half an hour after their return, they all started to have fevers. The doctor couldn't find the cause of their illness and could only give them medicine.
After Su Deng returned, she was immediately placed under the protection of Quan Sigong, with three times more bodyguards than before.
Even when I'm sleeping, a maid is watching over me.
Kōji said that if Tsuyomiya Riki doesn't return by tomorrow, the selection of the shrine maiden will fall entirely on her shoulders.
Su Deng rolled her eyes at her own crooked and awkward dance and went back to bed.
The following day was the day of the shrine maiden selection.
Today was supposed to be a day of great anticipation and sanctity, but in just a few days, Wushui Garden has been thrown into chaos.
There were originally twelve candidates, but at the final shrine maiden selection ceremony, only Su Deng stood there.
Faced with the Palace Master, the Palace Master Quan, and those other clergy, Su Deng was speechless and wanted to disappear on the spot.
"If none of the above works, then it's just her."
"Thankfully, she's alright."
"The demons have come out and are running rampant again, and so have those monsters..."
"...I have a feeling that this whole thing was premeditated..."
As he said this, one of the clergymen gave Su Deng a meaningful look, the meaning of which was self-evident.
Su Deng knew without guessing that her words implied that she was the one who did it, that she was the one who murdered the other candidates in order to become the priestess.
But she wasn't angry, nor did she care.
If she hadn't actually done it, she would have been the only one left out of the twelve priestess candidates, and if she were the only one chosen, even she herself would have suspected that she had done it.
"Probably not, she disappeared too..."
"Tomorrow is the clan god festival, and we don't have time. We must choose a priestess today no matter what. Perhaps it is divine favor that she is alright, so we can only choose her."
All that hard work over the years was wiped out in one fell swoop, and everyone looked terrible.
"Then..."
"etc!"
Just as Quan Gongsi was about to announce that there was no need for any further competition, and that Su Deng would be directly appointed as the priestess, a gentle yet firm voice came from outside the door.
"Miss Jinomiya?"
"Miss Jinomiya is back!"
The sudden appearance of Riki Tsuyomi caused all of them, including Tsukasa Kōji, to stand up and rush out to see her.
Su Deng: "..."
She suddenly felt like she was the villainous supporting character.
In order to become a priestess, she eliminated all other priestess candidates, but at the crucial moment of selection, her most formidable rival suddenly appeared, giving this supporting female character a slap in the face...
Although she didn't do those things.
But this behavior and plot... is really subtle.
But Su Deng didn't do it, looking at Tsunomiya Riki with an open and honest expression.
Riki Ninomiya was still dressed in a simple white shirt and red hakama, with wide, flowing silk trousers that resembled a skirt. She was simple, graceful, and as gentle and elegant as ever.
She looked at Su Deng through the crowd, her expression somewhat complicated, "I'm sorry, but I must be chosen as the priestess."
Su Deng didn't show much emotion, only giving a faint "oh".
"Where have you been?"
"What happened? Why did you suddenly come back..."
"Don't ask now. Now that she's here, she and Haruko still have to run for election..."
Several people surrounded Riki Tsunomiya, carefully checking her for injuries and constantly asking her about her condition.
Before Riki Tsunomiya could answer a single question, she was interrupted by the priest to continue the crucial shrine maiden selection.
The extra person is none other than the one whom both the priest and the chief priest had favored from the very beginning—the most perfect Tsunomiya Riki.
The selection process has resumed, with one of the two candidates chosen.
Riki Ninomiya went first, gently shaking the Kagura bell in her hand. She performed the Kagura dance for the deceased, the prayer dance, and the dance dedicated to the gods, all flawlessly.
Su Deng hadn't learned it to begin with, but she still tried her best to dance.
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